Matt Veenstra at Tribenetworks seems to think Google’s $4billion will go towards acquiring Skype. Just to play the rogue speculator, I’m gonna gamble that part of it is going towards a deal with Apple; Google teaming up with the iTunes Music Store could prove a veritable challenge to Yahoo!’s growing music streaming services. Of [...]
Hear, hear! Jeff Jarvis has a great post for old-economy models. Two choice quotes:
Equity no longer grows from exclusivity.
But in this new age, you don’t want to own the content or the pipe that delivers it. You want to participate in what people want to do on their own. You don’t want to extract [...]
Placeholder for something Sony needs to think, if not at least realize, about where the economy, business, and consumer culture is going thanks to the ubiquity of the internet because we all know even the profitable and headline-making division of our business doesn’t have a Strategy for online ContEnt distribution.
I wish something like this had existed back when I was hunting for summer internships. While I thoroughly enjoyed the summer projects and places I worked as an intern, an incubator environment with as much freedom as the SFP program is promising sounds incredible! Awesome idea. Poke around Paul Graham’s site for [...]
Nobel prize winning economist Stiglitz, declares Bush is “dead wrong”.
From IEEE Spectrum:
Worldwide copies of [X] sold in 2003:
DVD-A: 400,000
SACD: 1,300,000
LPs: 1,500,000
Interesting how such old technology is still so popular. SACDs have been around for a few years now…
Lots of money flowing back in little paper envelopes by foreign workers helping the Japanese economy. I’ve noticed an interested trend concerning the increase of non-Japanese in the service sector – many convenience stores in the less crowded parts of town seem to employ more non-Japanese Asians (who, btw, speak very good Japanese – [...]
Jeff Nolan makes a great point about blogging in “tree-oriented cultures.” Hey Mr. CEO, how serious are you about getting to the core of the information? Reminds me of a favorite:
In the beginning was the Plan.
And then came the Assumptions.
And the Assumptions were without form.
And the Plan was without substance. And darkness was [...]
Two midweek music related updates:
Smart Playlists – great way to create interesting mixes and find old music in your library.
Weedshare – putting value in replication and sharing. Relies on a rather heavy CMS framework, but probably the only direction to go.
Terrie’s Take ML went out today – the website doesn’t seem to get updated; anyone know what’s up? Some good info regarding the economy from this month’s distro though. In particular:
Certainly a lot of other people are taking heart and putting their money where their hopes lie. It interesting to learn that almost 15,000 [...]
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